Olympus Geological History Museum

The Olympus Geological History Museum (Greek: Μουσείο Γεωλογικής Ιστορίας Ολύμπου, Mouseio Geologikis Istorias Olympou) is a geological museum in the town of Leptokarya at the foot of Mount Olympus in northern Greece.

It presents in several exhibition rooms, rocks and minerals from the region and fossils from the Olympus and from the surrounding area.

Using a model of the Olympus, the distribution of the various types of rock in the mountain range is shown.

As a result of the displacement of the continental plates, Olympus is still pushed up by one to four millimeters per year.

Further panels explain that Mount Olympus got its present form after the Würm ice age.